Now, there is in fact short-sightedness, greed, stupidity and incompetence killing the home electronics market. That's absolutely true. But it's not a plot. Your pattern-matching is lying to you. Sometimes things are bad because very rich people are a bunch of fuckups.

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To stream a game it means a dedicated GPU and CPU for every. Single. Player. Everyone connected needs their own system, but in addition to that they need to cover the massive amount of bandwidth needed to stream it to you AND the electricity to run the thing. There is no plot to kill home PCs.

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Can we finally put to bed that "they want to rent you a computer so you never own anything" nonsense? They *can't* rent you a computer. It costs more for them to rent you the computer than to sell you the computer. Why would they do the thing that makes them far less money? Think!

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Cybercab defeated by water-filled pothole www.kxan.com/news/local/a...

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when bari was at the NYT, a bunch of their worst old current and retired journalists would assemble into Bari Defense Voltron at any hint of criticism

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